I gave up in the end and have moved to a TOSHIBA PA3705D media keyboard with integrated mouse pad. Despite other reviews hating it, I am very pleased with it as it works great in both ubuntu 9.10 & XP. Not as good as the scroll point for precision stuff but great.
regards Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "armandocroce" <armandocr...@gmail.com> To: <p.east...@ntlworld.com> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 10:02 AM Subject: [Bug 126897] Re: IBM ScrollPoint mouse scrolls vertically VERY fastand has no horizontal scrolling I like this mouse and I dual boot with windows. No intention to support it? Thanks, -- IBM ScrollPoint mouse scrolls vertically VERY fast and has no horizontal scrolling https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126897 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “linux-source-2.6.20” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “xserver-xorg-input-mouse” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-input-mouse Hello, I've just bought this mouse: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/th/products.nsf/$wwwpartnumlookup/_31P7405?OpenDocument&sourcesite=lenovo And found out that scrolling is highly unusable under Linux. The vertical scrolling is VERY sensitive, a single soft touch at the scrolling button generates dozens of scrolling events, as opposed to Lenovo' s official Windows driver. Windows also have this problem when running with Windows factory drivers. It seems that Lenovo' s driver does some "software level event filtering" to let it work properly. I found an old thread at LKML: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0410.3/0799.html Where this issue already appears. All points to the need of a specific workarround for this mouse model. Also, the horizontal scroll can not be configured in any way. I tried remapping all (17 i guess) detected mouse buttons to horizontal scrolling and nothing. I had success making my Synaptics touchpad work fine, but this mouse has no way to make horizontal scrolling work. Here is lsusb output: $ lsusb Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04b3:3108 IBM Corp. 800dpi Optical Mouse w/ Scroll Point Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Hope this get fixed, or I've just lost some money buying this mouse... Thank you. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Jul 18 21:41:00 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Package: xserver-xorg-input-mouse 1:1.2.1-0ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: i386 SourcePackage: xserver-xorg-input-mouse Uname: Linux morpheus 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux -- IBM ScrollPoint mouse scrolls vertically VERY fast and has no horizontal scrolling https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/126897 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xserver-xorg-input-mouse in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
